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Sears Named C-USA's Male Field Athlete of the Week

C-USA Release

IRVING, Texas WKU Track and Field’s Ventavius Sears was named the Conference USA Male Field Athlete of the Week as announced by the league office Tuesday afternoon. In just the second week of honors awarded, Sears is the first Hilltopper of 2017 to pick up a weekly accolade after claiming both the long jump and triple jump event crowns at the Commodore Invite last weekend in Nashville, Tennessee.

Sears, who notched a career-best long jump mark of 7.78m at the Commodore Invite, registered a pair of third-best all-time marks in program history for both jumps - long jump and triple jump (15.